Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century — Test
Question 1 • English III
Read the excerpt from Infinite Jest . [Orin] stood there, he says, hefting a cold clod, playing with the Velcro on his puffy coat, watching as the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out, countenancing evidence of oral contact with same. He remembers her face as past describing. What is the meaning of the excerpt?
Answer
A
The narrator’s brother is ignoring his mother’s behavior.
B
The narrator’s mother is addressing her sons for their misbehavior.
C
The narrator’s mother is attempting to identify what her son ate.
D
The narrator’s brother is playing a trick on his mother.